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Yesterday, on March 23, 2015, Sony Computer Entertainment America saw five of its trademark applications abandoned, likely because of administrative error (same situation as with the trademark for The Last Guardian in February), in the US. Four of these trademark applications concern computer game software, the remaining concerns headphones.

Abandoned because no Statement of Use or Extension Request timely filed after Notice of Allowance was issued. To view all documents in this file, click on the Trademark Document Retrieval link at the top of this page.

The attorney who handled these applications was Kiphanie Radford who is no longer with Sony. She also handled the application for The Last Guardian which was abdoned on February 16 this year. Since then, Lindsey Anne Mohle (RIHC, The State Bar of California) together with Anthony Justman (Senior Director, Legal & Business Affairs at Sony) handle most trademark cases. If these trademarks have indeed been abandoned due to administrative error, I find it a bit strange. It's been after all more than a month since the The Last Guardian incident, I would have thought someone would have checked if other trademark applications were in jeapordy of being abandoned. Seemingly nobody bothered to do so.

As for the games connected to these applications, there should be no problems, especially Bloodborne ought to see no holdback as it launches today (March 24) in North America. These issues ought to be resolved shortly. One could consider this rather sloppy practice however if indeed abandonment is due to an administrative error on Sony's part.

According to gamefaqs, the game is developed and published by SCEI Japan.
The previous game in the franchise "Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do To Deserve This?" (real name) was developed by Acquire.

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According to gamefaqs, the game is developed and published by SCEI Japan.
The previous game in the franchise "Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do To Deserve This?" (real name) was developed by Acquire.

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I'm an IP attorney by profession. I don't understand how Sony's lawyers keep allowing this to happen. Hell, its grounds for a misconduct violation for an attorney to allow this to happen (if its actually the attorney's fault and not some other Sony clerical error). Hire me Sony, I'll get this in order haha.

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So I can't just put a "Bloodborne 2" sticker on copies of Nightmare Creatures and go to town?

In all seriousness, I do think this is kind of lame of whomever is supposed to be in charge of this over at the Sony camp. Not a big deal, but a sign that maybe priorities need to be re-aligned and the schedule re-examined.